What is your normal ski breakfast?

[marge]

I saw a couple of people talk about skipping meals on ski days (lunch mainly) but eating a "good breakfast". What kinds of things do you have for breakfast or do you have a "standard ski breakfast"?

When we're in Michigan it's usually oatmeal with blueberries ( pretty much eat that year round). It seems to last for quite a while and sometimes skip lunch and just have a granola bar or an early dinner.

When we're out west it's breakfast burritos with green chili. We have a couple of favorite places but honestly, I haven't met a breakfast burrito doused in green chili that I didn't like.

 

[Kiragirl]

It's almost 5:00 here so this will be fast (I ain't thinking breakfast right now! It's HH.)

usual breakfast before skiing: COFFEE, maybe a banana, a "breakfast bar" fruit/oatmeal thingy, juice, maybe bowl of cereal.

OK, now on to more important things: it's 5:00 and TGIF! Have a great weekend everyone!

 

[Consuela]

I am a 3 meal kind of gal... no matter what. Don't believe in skipping meals. So, it's rare that I "ski through lunch". If I do, then I will at least be consuming a couple of Ensure shakes, a banana, and some string cheese on the lift.

If we are making out own breakie, then it's a couple of micorwaved breakfast hotpockets and a diet coke.

If eating out, then the breakfast burrito (and diet coke) at NorthStar is quite yummy! Or if at a Denny's then it eggs, bacon, and sausage w/ diet coke.

 

[Robyn]

My standard is peanut butter and jelly sandwich if I'm driving up from Denver, especially on coaching days. If I have more time or am spending some time up at the Vail house I love doing baked oatmeal to take up with me.

 

[num]

One of my favorite pre-ski breakfasts is oatmeal with nut (natural peanut, almond or cashew) butter and butter melted into it, strong loose leaf tea and fruit. Another favorite is thin whole wheat khubuz 'arabi (a style of Arab bread) with thin slices of Arab cheese rinsed with boiling water, cantaloupe, and walnuts, a plate of herbs, or with Gaymar (a thick cream) and honey, with a pot of strong loose leaf tea either way. Sounds weird when I type it out, but delicious. Black bean fritters with the aforementioned tea and some fruit is another goodie.

I also always ski with an apple in my pocket. Never underestimate the power of an apple in the pocket :D

 

[skigrl27]

Big breakfast. Breakfast burrito maybe...

something with eggs, meat & cheese of some sort...OJ & lots of water. So if it's an epic pow day - you can ski til after the lunch rush.

mmm, that made me hungry!

 

[SnowHot]

Oatmeal. Yum!
Oj and of course, coffee. If I could main line coffee, I would!

 

[MaineSkiLady]

Yeah, guilty as charged about not being able to eat much during the ski day. Just gives me massive indigestion afterward if I head back out to ski. I can eat extremely light mid-day. Anything more and I'm done for the day. Cramps. A.M.: big fan of smoothies and a nice toasted chunk of french bread or bagel w/cheese. The requisite coffee IV. But come dinner time, I'll take on anyone for mass quantity consumption!

 

[SkiNurse]

Cereal, skim milk. Coffee, yogurt & fruit on the way to the mountain.

 

[SnowHot]

Yeah, guilty as charged about not being able to eat much during the ski day. Just gives me massive indigestion afterward if I head back out to ski. I can eat extremely light mid-day. Anything more and I'm done for the day. Cramps. A.M.: big fan of smoothies and a nice toasted chunk of french bread or bagel w/cheese. The requisite coffee IV. But come dinner time, I'll take on anyone for mass quantity consumption!

When we did ESA Stowe, Robin Barnes spent time doing some discussion after we ate, then followed up by doing some easy runs to let our bodies catch up before hitting it hard again.
She explained that we needed to take it slow for a minimum of 30 minutes to let the body digest our lunch. If you start with much activity immediately after eating, then your body puts the energy into the muscles and the food sits in your stomach, which is why you/we get a heavy feeling if we eat, and head back out, without taking a moment to chill and chat.

To my diva friends, if you ever think I'm dinking around after lunch, visiting and filling my camelback, its just my way of taking care of my digestive system and making sure I feel good when I go back at it.

 

[abc]

Good topic.

Ski lunch is easy. A bowl of soup, with a small amount of bread/cracker. (I prefer bread, but not always available). Takes no time to digest and can ski right away.

Breakfast, that's a different story.

I'm not a first chair kind of gal. That said, I actually don't sleep in. It's just my "morning ritual" take a long time.

I'm a big bagel fanatic. My "normal" (office) breakfast is bagel with cream cheeze (coffee, of course). For skiing, I try to add egg and/or smoke salmon to it. A banana or apple round it off. That's for breakfast on the run (when I have a long drive to the slope).

If I'm staying slope side'ish (< 15 min drive), I eat a "real" full breakfast. That usually has eggs, maybe one or two peice of bacon, plus a pancake or waffle (or two, or three). Maybe a small bowl of cerel. ALWAYS some fruit.

Now, all that food needs to be digested. So, I dilly-dally around with changing into ski gear, put on sunscreen, filling my water bottle etc. (just like Snowhot). What first chair? You mean the first chair *I* sit on? ;-)

 

[Jilly]

Well , weekends at Tremblant at the condo- breakfast consists of OJ, coffee or tea, eggs, bacon or sausage, toast with jam or cream cheese. We do stop for lunch which is either chili or just soup. And then again the resident breakfast chef - aka DH, might do pancakes and bacon or sausage for the meal. The joys of the griddle!

 

[Jenny]

When staying on-site then it's Diet Coke and instant oatmeal. I grudgingly come in for soup/chili at lunch, then back out asap. After the lift close it's into the bar for a Mike's Hard Cranberry (Canadian!) and back to the condo for too much dinner.

On a day trip, breakfast is drive through at McDonald's, with a Diet Coke. Then I usually keep a king size Snicker's in my pocket so I don't have to stop for lunch. Dinner usually ends up being drive through Burger King, or Subway if we're being healthier.

We're not foodies at all, can you tell???

 

[Daria]

I read someplace that you need a good fat content in your meals when you ski to help with the cold temps. So that is my justification for my own homemade egg burrito - egg, whole wheat tortilla, feta cheese and salsa all wrapped up. That with juice, all of my vitamins and a nice latte get me going

 

[volklgirl]

On a day trip, breakfast is drive through at McDonald's, with a Diet Coke. Then I usually keep a king size Snicker's in my pocket so I don't have to stop for lunch. Dinner usually ends up being drive through Burger King, or Subway if we're being healthier.

We're not foodies at all, can you tell???

Us too, but substitue OJ for Diet Coke, Rice Krispy Treats for Snickers, and Taco Bell for Subway.

 

[itri]

My typical breakfast most days, including ski days, is a breakfast bar of some type (granola, fruit, lunabar) and a yogurt smoothie (Stonyfield Farm vanilla, usually).

We used to have a favorite donut shop we'd stop at in Idaho Springs on our way up to the high country, but it is unfortunately no longer in business. I LOVE a good breakfast burrito in the morning, but I hate to stop, so finding one at a drive through place is a challenge!

 

[altagirl]

I read someplace that you need a good fat content in your meals when you ski to help with the cold temps. So that is my justification for my own homemade egg burrito - egg, whole wheat tortilla, feta cheese and salsa all wrapped up. That with juice, all of my vitamins and a nice latte get me going

We do homemade bagel or croissant sandwiches. Scrambled eggs, bacon and cheese on a bagel/croissant/biscuit/whatever...

Wrap them in tinfoil and eat on the drive. On a powder day our drive usually consists more of sitting in line waiting for them to open the road after avalanche control so there's plenty of time for breakfast in the car even though it's only 12 miles away.

On non-powder days we're in less of a rush and just eat whatever at home. But I'm a breakfast person. What I REALLY love though is breakfast in Moab before going on big mountain bike rides. Mmmmm..... spinach feta mushroom omelet with homestyle potatoes doused in hot sauce. Yum. Yum. Yum.

 

[Quiver Queen]

Staying slopeside my favorite breakfast is fajitas--flour tortilla, chunked up steak, scrambled egg, veggies, & cheese all smothered in salsa.

Mmmmm..... spinach feta mushroom omelet with homestyle potatoes doused in hot sauce. Yum. Yum. Yum.

You're singing my song! That sounds too good to be true! I think I'll start making these when my husband isn't around (too adventurous for him, that meat-and-potato-and-occasionally-Mexican man).

If I'm driving to the mountain breakfast is Hostess chocolate cupcakes, but they have to be eating in a very specific way--first, you split the tops from the bottom, then you scoop out the fluff from the cake with your tongue, then eat the cake, and save the chocolate frosting top for the last but you have to leave the little squiggly white ribbon for the very end. Aaaaaaaah!

 

[Jenny]

If I'm driving to the mountain breakfast is Hostess chocolate cupcakes, but they have to be eating in a very specific way--first, you split the tops from the bottom, then you scoop out the fluff from the cake with your tongue, then eat the cake, and save the chocolate frosting top for the last but you have to leave the little squiggly white ribbon for the very end. Aaaaaaaah!

Other than trying to save the white ribbon for the end that's EXACTLY the way I eat them!

 

[Molly]

Oatmeal with raisins and brown sugar and a sliver of butter and a few chopped pecans.

I have a theory that three meals a day of this would be more or less sufficient to sustain life. And it sure would taste fine.